{"id":1471,"date":"2017-10-15T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2017-10-16T00:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:17:41","slug":"news-hedge-fund-ico-trading-tulip-token-ico-why-actual-money-is-good-satoshi-was-wrong-mmm-is-good-news-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/15\/news-hedge-fund-ico-trading-tulip-token-ico-why-actual-money-is-good-satoshi-was-wrong-mmm-is-good-news-for-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Hedge funds and ICOs, Tulip Token ICO, actual money is good, Satoshi was wrong, MMM is good news for Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/15\/news-hedge-fund-ico-trading-tulip-token-ico-why-actual-money-is-good-satoshi-was-wrong-mmm-is-good-news-for-bitcoin\/tulip-token-ico\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tulip-token-ico-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tulip-token-ico-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tulip-token-ico.png 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to make money in cryptos: get rid of them as soon as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-10-03\/hedge-funds-flip-icos-leaving-other-investors-holding-the-bag\">Hedge Funds Flip ICOs, Leaving Other Investors Holding the Bag<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An art project: <a href=\"https:\/\/thetulip.auction\/\">The Tulip Token ICO<\/a>. &#8220;Auction begins when bulb enters simulated winter; Auction ends when the tulip dies.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Randy Walman: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfluidity.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fiat-Is-Effective-Minitalk-light-edit-to-share.pdf\">&#8220;Fiat Money is Very Effective&#8221;<\/a> &mdash; slides to a talk he gave on the subject at ETH Silicon Valley. Apparently it was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/interfluidity\/status\/917528768888971264\">quite well received<\/a>. &#8220;Current iterations of crypto are just ridiculously poor candidates for a dominant money&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@homakov\/satoshi-was-wrong-cd06d2877128\">Satoshi was Wrong<\/a> by Egor Homakov: the things Satoshi missed in designing Bitcoin.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)\">MMM ponzi<\/a> &#8220;may be one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1100886\/bitcoin-in-africa-is-driven-by-mmm-mavrodi-ponzi-scheme\/\">biggest drivers of Bitcoin adoption<\/a> in the world today, especially in low-income areas.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<p><br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/15\/news-hedge-fund-ico-trading-tulip-token-ico-why-actual-money-is-good-satoshi-was-wrong-mmm-is-good-news-for-bitcoin\/radloff-notacult\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1489\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/radloff-notacult.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/radloff-notacult.jpg 750w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/radloff-notacult-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanRadloff\/status\/919206806760640513\">#notacult<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not <i>all<\/i> things you don&#8217;t want to know about Mark Karpel\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,6,157,158,156],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ico","tag-links","tag-mmm","tag-ray-radloff","tag-tulip-token"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}